THE DEAD MAN The dead man, acrylic on canvas, 2024. This work is the result of a months-long artificially constructed ritual. The work is a diptych, an altarpiece of a non-existent personal religion, commissioned for the contemporary art festival MaxArtfest. Under the title Dead Man, the author creates artificial social situations in which he faces the heteroopias of his own life. What decisions did he make in his life and how did they influence the formation of the line of life that others recognize as his identity. What could have been if he had decided differently and how these rejected realities become heterotopias that affect life. The author was declared a dead man in 2000 due to the complete purification of his social status. He continued to live as a "dead man" amidst the hell of circumstances and persons who build their lives on his "living death".